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A well-informed population is essential to the proper functioning of a democratic society. Unfortunately, if all you read this week regarding Judge Michael Kenny’s latest decision in the Atherton cases was Mike Rosenberg’s Mercury News article, you would be significantly ill-informed about what the ruling actually held and what it actually means for the California [...]
Last week Governor Jerry Brown signed two bills in Los Angeles designed to help get a new NFL stadium built near LA Live and Staples Center. The two bills, AB 900 and SB 292, provide for expedited review of lawsuits brought under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) against certain kinds of infrastructure projects or [...]
Is it possible for someone to claim to be a “liberal” and yet fight bitterly against liberal policies? In the normal would that would be considered “hypocrisy” and, since we ought to judge people by their actions and not by their self-serving descriptions, we would rightly refuse to acknowledge anyone as a “liberal” if they [...]
Last night the Palo Alto City Council met to discuss its response to the Alternatives Analysis for the San Francisco to San José section of the HSR project. The city’s response is predictable: they’re attacking the planning process and making demands about the design options: The letter identifies what the city considers to be a [...]
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